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REVIEW: Dune (2021)

March 7, 2022 Grant Watson

In the long history of novels being adapted into films, it seems a certainly that people have always spoken of ‘unfilmable’ books. Of course they are usually only considered unfilmable until an enterprising production team actually films them, as was … Continue reading REVIEW: Dune (2021)

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REVIEW: The Kid Who Would Be King (2019)

May 1, 2021 Grant Watson

Properly-made family entertainment is just about the hardest thing to get right in filmmaking, and yet for all of the effort placed into the best examples it is exceedingly rare for such a film to be a hit. Children are … Continue reading REVIEW: The Kid Who Would Be King (2019)

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REVIEW: Doctor Sleep (2019)

August 16, 2020 Grant Watson

Alcoholic loner Dan Torrance (Ewan McGregor) lives an itinerant life, still haunted by the ghosts that killed his father and traumatised him as a child. Even after settling into a sense of normality Dan is dragged back into danger when … Continue reading REVIEW: Doctor Sleep (2019)

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REVIEW: Life (2017)

January 29, 2020 Grant Watson

On the International Space Station, a team of astronauts and specialists receive soil samples from a Martian probe. Inside they discover proof of life on Mars: a single-celled organism. Once attempts to stimulate it result in the creature’s rapid growth, … Continue reading REVIEW: Life (2017)

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REVIEW: The Greatest Showman (2017)

December 12, 2018October 7, 2020 Grant Watson

Let me tell you about 19th century entrepreneur and entertainment giant P.T. Barnum (Hugh Jackman). He grows up poor and mocked by the upper classes, despite falling in love with a wealthy heiress (Michelle Williams). As an adult, when the … Continue reading REVIEW: The Greatest Showman (2017)

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